The escape of convinced killers Richard Matt and David Sweat will be turned into a film, the Albany Times Union reported Tuesday.
Reporter Daniel Roberts, citing Deadline.com, reported that Penelope Ann Miller will play prison seamstress Joyce Mitchell, Myk Watford will portray Matt and Joe Anderson will play Sweat.
Lifetime will produce "Prison Break: The Joyce Mitchell Story," which will chronicle Mitchell's intimate relationship with the inmates and her role in their escape. A release date was not available.
Miller played Doris in "The Artist" and Joyce Palmieri in "Kindergarten Cop," among several other recent television show appearances.
Watford has had several appearances in television shows like "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "The Young and the Restless."
Anderson had starring roles in films like "Across the Universe" and "The Crazies."
Producers have not said where the movie will be filmed.
A judge sentenced Mitchell to up to seven years in prison for her role in the 2015 escape, which sparked a three-week manhunt across the North Country. The former corrections employee was also ordered to pay nearly $80,000 for damage Matt and Sweat did to their cells during the escape.
A border patrol agent shot and killed Matt on June 26, 2015, in a wooded area about 30 miles from the prison. Sweat was shot, wounded and re-incarcerated.
Mitchell is serving her sentence at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County. She took a plea deal to avoid additional charges of an attempted plot to kill her husband and having sexual contact with inmates.
Mitchell admitted to close relationships with the pair, but said she got spooked and failed to show up to drive the getaway car the night of the escape.
The Times Union and Lifetime are owned by NBC5's parent company, Hearst.

DANNEMORA, N.Y. —

The escape of convinced killers Richard Matt and David Sweat will be turned into a film, the Albany Times Union reported Tuesday.

Lifetime will produce "Prison Break: The Joyce Mitchell Story," which will chronicle Mitchell's intimate relationship with the inmates and her role in their escape. A release date was not available.

Miller played Doris in "The Artist" and Joyce Palmieri in "Kindergarten Cop," among several other recent television show appearances.

Watford has had several appearances in television shows like "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "The Young and the Restless."

Anderson had starring roles in films like "Across the Universe" and "The Crazies."

Producers have not said where the movie will be filmed.

A judge sentenced Mitchell to up to seven years in prison for her role in the 2015 escape, which sparked a three-week manhunt across the North Country. The former corrections employee was also ordered to pay nearly $80,000 for damage Matt and Sweat did to their cells during the escape.

A border patrol agent shot and killed Matt on June 26, 2015, in a wooded area about 30 miles from the prison. Sweat was shot, wounded and re-incarcerated.

Mitchell is serving her sentence at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County. She took a plea deal to avoid additional charges of an attempted plot to kill her husband and having sexual contact with inmates.

Mitchell admitted to close relationships with the pair, but said she got spooked and failed to show up to drive the getaway car the night of the escape.

The Times Union and Lifetime are owned by NBC5's parent company, Hearst.